There were no verbal pirouettes, no jaw-dropping turns of phrases, no I-don’t-believe-what-I-just-heard! moments.

It was just a teleconference.

But Johnny Football killed it anyway.

Maybe we should all start calling him Johnathan Manziel, because that’s how Texas A&M’s superstar freshman quarterback referred to himself Monday afternoon in a call with reporters arranged by the school.

“Just a small-town kid,” said the most talked-about freshman in the college game in many a year, and the runaway leader to win the Heisman Trophy.

It has been a season of firsts for the 10-2 Aggies. An extraordinarily successful debut in the SEC. An SEC single-season total-yardage record (4,600) for Manziel. And, in the days to come, very likely the first freshman Heisman winner in the history of the award.

“I definitely held myself to high standards. I definitely wanted to come out and have a good year if I was the starter,” Manziel said. “But there’s no way I expected to come out and have this type of success.”